Blake and Mortimer is based on the comic by Edgar P. Jacobs. Trying to fit one album (or in several cases 2 or 3) into 52 minutes is an impossible task without loosing a lot of detail. Unfortunately, that is one of the problems. I'd say this series is comparable to the animated Tintin series. Some episodes are not based on any album, and I've only seen two of them so far, but the stories hold up to the simplified stories based on the albums.

13 episodes are available on DVD region 2 in France. Luckily you can choose english as a language/subtitles for us that are not fluent in french.

For fans that can stand to see the stories change and adapted to animation, some fun can be had, if only to see new stories.